Holistic visual encoding of ant-like routes: Navigation without waypoints

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-15

  Baddeley, Bart ^a   Graham, Paul ^a   Philippides, Andrew ^a   Husbands, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autonomous robotics; image classification; Insect navigation; route learning; view based homing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79251480950     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712310395410     Document Type: Article

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